Podfic

While smaller percentages (5 to 25 percent) participate in creating or listening to podfic (audio recordings of fan fiction), filk (fan music), or fan mixes (music playlists tailored to a source or fan work), […]

[…] they may role-play; they may craft collaborative narratives via blogs or microblogging sites such as Twitter, perhaps writing from the point of view of a character; they may record their stories as podfic; […]

In her oral history, jinjurly (2012), who founded and maintains the Audiofic Archive, the largest online archive of podfic, describes podfic as the physicalization of fan fiction, which she acknowledges some fans find distasteful and off-putting.

Other suggestions included “Fan work tags as high level mandatory categories with appropriate related characteristics, i.e. length and/or size for vid and podfic instead of word count...” This refers to the fact that the Archive accepts other types of fanwork than fic, including art, videos and “podfics,” or recordings of fic, which, much like audiovisual items requiring different catalog records than books, would benefit from different “fields.”

Creating and distributing fan videos, podfics (audiorecorded fan fiction), and filk (fandom-specific songs) required considerable expertise and complicated, expensive technology in the 1980s and even the 1990s.

All types of fan works were auctioned: fiction, digital art, videos, podfics, and fan labor including betaing (i.e., reading and editing) or translating stories.